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Maxim Ghilan - Part 1 Maxim Ghilan - Part 1
Date: 4/30/1973Call Number: CE 334Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Editor of a monthly publication on Middle-Eastern affairs describes his work to organize with anti-Zionist Jews and Arabs struggling for justice in Palestine and against the occupation. Discusses racism in Israel, the right for Palestinians to return to their homes, and the problems of a two-state solution. Describes his imprisonment in Israel for publishing an article linking the Mossad to the disappearance of a Moroccan dissident in 1965. Ghilan explains that democracy exists in Israel only for Jews and not Palestinians.
Maxim Ghilan - Part 2 Maxim Ghilan - Part 2
Date: 4/30/1973Call Number: CE 335Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Editor of a monthly publication on Middle-Eastern affairs describes his work to organize with anti-Zionist Jews and Arabs struggling for justice in Palestine and against the occupation. Discusses racism in Israel, the right for Palestinians to return to their homes, and the problems of a two-state solution. Describes his imprisonment in Israel for publishing an article linking the Mossad to the disappearance of a Moroccan dissident in 1965. Ghilan explains that democracy exists in Israel only for Jews and not Palestinians.
Israeli Music Israeli Music
Call Number: CE 336Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: KOL IsraelCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Music recorded from a broadcast of Kol Israel.
Arab League View Arab League View
Date: 6/1/1970Call Number: CE 337Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Farouk Mawlawi of the Arab League discusses the Arab League position on Israeli occupation of Arab lands. Criticizes Israeli non-compliance with UN Resolutions that demand an end to occupation of Palestine, The United Arab Republic (Egypt), Jordan, and Syria. Mawlawi also discusses support for human rights and the Arab League support for the Palestinian Revolutionary Movement. Stresses how youth across the Arab world are non-compromising in their support for Palestine. Also discusses the USSR and US support of Zionism. Includes analysis of the role of oil and arms trade, and other countries such as China and Venezuela.
Black September Outs Black September Outs
Call Number: CE 338Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Various people present during Black September in Jordan 1970. John Bonar describes what he saw during Black September in Jabal Hussein, the oldest refugee camp (1948 refugees) in Jordan. Analysis by on the need for the Palestinian Resistance Movement to operate outside of Jordan. The position of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine on their strategy and the different fronts of struggle against their enemy, Israel. Criticism of the role of journalists who were not present in the main areas of fighting, for creating accounts from their hotels. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine on the events leading up to Black September. The Palestinian Resistance Movement’s analysis of Jordan before Black September and goal of creating unity among various Palestinian organizations for recognition and integration into the political life of Jordan. Challenging that Bedouins intentionally injured guerillas (fedayeen) in the hospitals. Bonar expressed resentment at the US government for providing weapons to the Jordanian government. Jordanian government prevented the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent Society to get humanitarian aid to the wounded and dead; brief description of the reasons for the creation of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society. Jordanian position on the Palestinian Resistance movement in Jordan, that it needs leave.
ROTC Instructor Teaching ROTC Instructor Teaching
Date: 1/1/1990Call Number: V 485Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
ROTC instruction followed by a PSA featuring members of Women Against Imperialism calling on people to join a demonstration against the gulf war. Various features focusing on Libya and Gaddafi's foreign relations and anti-Israel politics.
Israel Shahak Israel Shahak
Date: 1/1/1972Call Number: CE 340Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Israeli Human Rights Activist Israel Shahak discusses whether the resistance in Gaza and the West Bank have been crushed. Claims that the resistance out of Gaza was a result of Israeli repression but that Palestinians need to create propaganda in Israel if they want Israelis to be their partners. While claiming to be anti-Zionist he criticizes the Palestinian left, specifically the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, because of their reluctance to share platforms with Israeli Jews.
Comments on Shahak interview Comments on Shahak interview
Call Number: CE 341Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
References an interview with Israel Shahak on August 13, 1970 in which Shahak discusses the absurdity of the Israeli educational curriculum that indoctrinates Israeli children to believe in their superiority to non-Jews. The sentiment of Israeli superiority is also felt towards European and American Jews. Criticizes US Reform Rabbis for supporting ‘civil rights’ in the US while not really supporting the struggle for Black self determination and being racist towards Arabs in Israel.
Operation Wrath of God Operation Wrath of God
Call Number: CE 342Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
Discusses Ghassan Kanafani’s ability to damage the Zionist enemy through his work as a writer. Kanafani’s philosophy on the meaning of life and death and its significance when it is connected to self-sacrifice and for the betterment of one’s people. Exposes the violence with which Israeli Operation Wrath of God assassinated and permanently maimed Palestinians, many of whom were well-respected scholars and statesman of the Palestinian nation in exile – including Anis Sayegh, Dr. Mahmoud Hamchari and Wael Zwaiter. Zwaiter, the representative of Fatah, was an esteemed public intellectual and among “liberal” Israelis in Italy. Israel refused to allow any of its targeted victims to be buried in their Palestinian hometowns.
Yasser Arafat in Damascus Syria (in arabic) Yasser Arafat in Damascus Syria (in arabic)
Date: 10/20/1969Call Number: CE 343 R2Format: Reel 2Producers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Collection
A press conference with Fatah leader Yasser Arafat in Damscus, Syria (in Arabic). Arafat affirms the righteousness of the Palestinian Resistance movement to resist the Zionist colonization of Palestine and the necessity for it to be supported by other Arab states.